A report by Chess.com finds that the American receives outside help, but ensures that “no concrete data has been found that Niemann cheated in the face-to-face chess game that he beat Carlsen”
Qu sabe Magnus Carlsen that the rest of the world doesn’t know?, asked the entire chess, all the players, all the fans, and now the answer is known. The American Hans Niemannhis archenemy of a few months ago, the man who made him withdraw from the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. Louis, “probably cheated” more than a hundred times according to a report by Chess.com, the most popular online gaming platform.
As published exclusively by the ‘Wall Street Journal, an investigation by Chess.com revealed Niemann’s continual cheating, who even won in some online tournaments with cash prizes, although the investigations “did not find concrete data that Niemann cheated in the game that I won against Carlsen [en aquella Sinquefield Cup]nor in any other face-to-face chess game”.
In a subsequent statement, Chess.com, which is in talks to buy the world champion’s Play Magnus Group, said it did not receive any pressure from the Norwegian and did not anticipate the report. But given the decisions made by Carlsen, who after the Sinquefield Cup withdrew from a game against the American in the Julius Baer online tournament, it is hard to believe that he did not know their content and acted accordingly.
The Chess.com investigation found that Niemann received illegal outside help in his games, that is, someone told him the moves to be made after analyzing them with a computer program. Niemann confessed that he had committed that infraction on two occasions, both when he was a teenager, but he claimed that since then he had never given in to temptation again.
The FIDE investigation
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has opened, for its part, an investigation, in charge of a panel of three experts, on the controversy surrounding the American Niemann. Before the Chess.com report and that FIDE file, it had been Carlsen himself who had issued a statement stating that Niemann “has cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted.” .
In a letter to his “dear chess world”, Carlsen wrote: “At the Sinquefield Cup 2022 I made the unprecedented professional decision to withdraw from the tournament after my third round game against Hans Niemann. A week later, during the Champions Chess Tour, resigned against Hans Niemann after playing only one move.”
The world champion proclaimed that “cheating in chess is a huge problem and an existential threat to the game” and considered that “chess organizers and everyone who cares about the purity of the game should seriously consider increasing cheating.” security measures and cheat detection methods”.
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